Target.



No. 666,!02. Patented Jan. I5, l90l. E. w. KNOWLTON.

TARGET.

(Application filed Dec. 80, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIAS W. KNOWLTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK REDMOND, OF SAME PLACE.

TARGET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 666,102, dated January 15, 1901.

Application filed December 30, 1899. Serial No. 742,136. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: score. In addition to these perforations there Be it known that I, ELIAS W. KNOWLTON, is an upper central perforation b behind a citizen of the United States of America, rewhich is a slide D, preferably inclosed in a siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and hood G and held down by means of a staple State of Illinois, have invented certain new d. A rubber band F, secured at its opposite 55 and useful Improvements in Targets, of ends to the opposite sides of the hood and bewhich the following is a specification. tween its ends to the slide D, tends to raise My invention relates to certain improvethe slide when the same is released from the ments in targets, the purpose of which is to staple d. It is the intention to place upon provide a target adapted for use in connecthis slide representations of two objects, one 60 tion with a toy gun, said target to present a of which will be in view through the perforaseries of marks or objects to be aimed at suption when the slide is down and the other ported in convenient position and in such a when the slide is up. The slide in its upmanner as to drop automatically when hit, ward position is also preferably exposed so that a number of consecutive shots may be above the top of the board B, as seen in Fig. 65

fired at the various objects and the score 1, and may be marked with any appropriate made up from the number hit and knocked inscription and with a number, as in the out of position. drawings, to indicate its value in thescore. To such end the invention consists in oer- I A toy gun of any well-known construction rain novel characteristics, which will appear is intended to be used in connection with the 70 from the following detail description and the target and the same should be of such a naclaim at the end thereof. v ture as to do no injuryto the target itself.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front per- When such a gun is fired at the various obspective of a complete target. Fig. 2 is a jects presented through the perforations, it rear elevation showing certain parts in horiknocks any one of the disks C which happens 75 zontal section in line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is to be hit from the supporting-pins, and when a vertical section in line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and the slide D is struck the latter is forced back- Fig. 4 is aplan view of a portion of the top ward from beneath the staple d and thrown of the target. upward by the rubber band, exposing to View 0 Referring to the drawings, A is a shallow the top of the slide and the lower portion of 80 open-top box composed of a flat bottom a, low the same. sides a a and end pieces a a. In this box, Great variation is possible in the specific and preferably at one end thereof, a board B form and arrangement of the invention, and is pivoted near one edge by means of the pins for that reason I do not limit myself to the 3 5 b b and is provided with cords b b, fastened details above described. 85 to the board and to the box to limit the back- I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letward movement of the board, and also with a ters Patent staple b in position to be engaged by a hook A target containing a series of perforations, a secured to the rear end of the box and a series of rearwardly-projecting pins above adapted to hold the board in an upright posaid perforations and a series of perforated 9o sition. At suitable places in the board holes marks adapted to be hung upon said pins; b are provided, and upon the rear side of the substantially as described. board, just above each hole, is a backwardly- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my projecting pin 17 preferably turned upward hand, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and slightly at the rear end, as seen at Fig. 3. State of Illinois, this 27th day of December 5 Disks C are hung upon these pins by means A. D. 1899.

of perforations 0. Numbers may be provided ELIAS W. KNOWLTON. either upon the disks or upon the board ad- Witnesses: jacent to the same to determine the relative CHARLES O. SHERVEY,

value of the various disks in making up the S. BLISS. 

